Overview

One of 11 resident organizations, Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) presents some 3,000 programs, events, and initiatives each year. Its performance series include American Songbook; Great Performers; the Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, Mostly Mozart, and White Light Festivals; and Live From Lincoln Center.

Overview

One of 11 resident organizations, Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) presents some 3,000 programs, events, and initiatives each year. Its performance series include American Songbook; Great Performers; the Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, Mostly Mozart, and White Light Festivals; and Live From Lincoln Center.

American Songbook

Celebrating composers and performers of American popular song, American Songbook gives today's brightest vocal talents the chance to shine in styles ranging from country to rock, from bluegrass to jazz, and from cabaret to Broadway.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Avery Fisher Artist Program

Avery Fisher, a lifelong benefactor of classical music, shared with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts a great commitment to nurturing performers. His philosophy was to give back to the world what music had given to him.

Great Performers

Since 1965, Great Performers has presented world-class artists in compelling performances of classical and bold, cutting-edge repertoire. Programs include modern and period instrument orchestra concerts, virtuoso vocal and instrumental recitals, and special film series.

Martin E. Segal Awards

The Martin E. Segal Awards were established by Lincoln Center’s Board when Mr. Segal retired as Chairman in 1986. Marking the commitment of the late Mr. Segal to support rising artists, Lincoln Center’s 11 resident organizations nominate an artist annually for the distinguished prize, which gives financial assistance and recognition to young artists of exceptional accomplishment.

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Out of Doors

Acclaimed music, dance, spoken word, and family events‚ including annual programs like La Casita and Roots of American Music‚ make up the country's longest-running free outdoor festival, filling the plazas of Lincoln Center every August for 43 seasons.

Visual Arts & Exhibitions

Lincoln Center houses an outstanding public art collection of modern masterworks. Its celebrated Vera List Art Project commissions primarily limited-edition prints as well as posters for sale to the public. A selection of prints is on view in the art gallery on David Geffen Hall’s lower lobby.

Accessibility at Lincoln Center

Accessibility at Lincoln Center

Mostly Mozart Festival

Since 1966, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival has been a summer tradition. Led by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée, the Festival presents music by Salzburg's favorite son, his contemporaries, composers who influenced and were influenced by him, and features an annual artist-in-residence.

White Light Festival

The White Light Festival is a multidisciplinary fall festival focusing on music's capacity to illuminate the many dimensions of our interior lives. Initiated in 2010, the Festival explores music's spiritual power as revealed in different cultural traditions.

Education & Community

A commitment to local and global community outreach and education continues to be a central component of our mission. Nearly three quarters of a million lives were enriched by our community programming and educational initiatives.

Education & Community

A commitment to local and global community outreach and education continues to be a central component of our mission. Nearly three quarters of a million lives were enriched by our community programming and educational initiatives.

Campus Tours

Whether you’re just visiting New York City and want a glimpse of performing arts history, or you’re a Lincoln Center regular who wants to see your favorite venues from a new perspective, a guided tour will bring you closer to the world’s premier performing arts center.

Discount Tickets

Enjoy Lincoln Center for less. When available, discount tickets to performances at Lincoln Center, New York City Center, 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall, and Miller Theatre can be purchased at the Donald and Barbara Zucker Box Office in the David Rubenstein Atrium. Stop by Tuesday through Saturday to peruse offered performances.

Free Performances

Immerse yourself in New York’s vibrant performing arts scene by attending one of the weekly free performances offered in Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium.

Lincoln Center Education

Lincoln Center Education’s mission is to enrich the lives of students, educators, and lifelong learners by providing opportunities for engagement with the arts onstage, in the classroom, digitally, and in the community. Our programs and initiatives reach hundreds of thousands of students, educators, teens, and seniors locally and around the world each year.

Lincoln Center Education

Providing arts and education programs to some 80 New York area public schools, Lincoln Center Education works with students and educators nationally and internationally by helping to stimulate imagination, encourage critical thinking, and support learning in other subjects.

Meet the Artist

Meet the Artist has a 30+ year tradition of presenting vibrant one-hour programs in an informal, interactive format. Showcasing a wide range of world-class performing artists from a broad spectrum of disciplines, programs are enjoyable for all ages. Each is personal and unique, and includes a Q&A with the artists.

Lincoln Center Local

Experience the world’s leading performing arts center and all that it has to offer in your local area! In partnership with Queens Library and Brooklyn Public Library, Lincoln Center will pack its bags and ride the rails this summer with live performances at select branches of community libraries!

Contact: Sita Frederick | 212.875.5555

Lincoln Center Veterans Initiative

As an expression of thanks to those who have served our country, the Lincoln Center Veterans Initiative offers attendance opportunities, discount tours, special events, and employment opportunities to active duty personnel and veterans of the U.S. armed forces.

Support Overview

Contributions from generous individuals, foundations, corporations and government entities directly support all of Lincoln Center’s artistic programs and special initiatives and affirm our mission—to present the very best in the performing arts to the widest possible audience.

Support Overview

Contributions from generous individuals, foundations, corporations and government entities directly support all of Lincoln Center’s artistic programs and special initiatives and affirm our mission—to present the very best in the performing arts to the widest possible audience.

Bravo Campaign

The Bravo Lincoln Center Campaign raises funds from both the private and public sectors to support the long-term objectives of Lincoln Center, including transforming its legendary 16-acre campus and building a larger institutional endowment that will strengthen its long-term financial position.

Corporate Sponsorship

The roster of high quality and diverse programs at Lincoln Center provides an unparalleled range of opportunities for corporate partnerships. Whatever the partner’s target group, Lincoln Center can facilitate a broad spectrum of sponsor objectives.

Corporate Sponsorship

The roster of high quality and diverse programs at Lincoln Center provides an unparalleled range of opportunities for corporate partnerships. Whatever the partner’s target group, Lincoln Center can facilitate a broad spectrum of sponsor objectives.

Corporate Sponsorship

The roster of high quality and diverse programs at Lincoln Center provides an unparalleled range of opportunities for corporate partnerships. Whatever the partner’s target group, Lincoln Center can facilitate a broad spectrum of sponsor objectives.

Corporate Sponsorship

The roster of high quality and diverse programs at Lincoln Center provides an unparalleled range of opportunities for corporate partnerships. Whatever the partner’s target group, Lincoln Center can facilitate a broad spectrum of sponsor objectives.

Lincoln Center Corporate Fund

Through one annual gift to the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund, your company, employees, and clients can enjoy all that Lincoln Center has to offer while proudly supporting the world’s leading performing arts center.

Membership Overview

Lincoln Center relies on the annual support of a large and loyal cadre of individual benefactors who participate in one or more of the following membership programs: the Friends of Lincoln Center, the Chairman’s Council, the Great Performers Circle, the Young Patrons of Lincoln Center, LC Kids. In grateful acknowledgment of their generosity, Lincoln Center offers a variety of exclusive benefits to enrich each member's performing arts experience.

Membership Overview

Lincoln Center relies on the annual support of a large and loyal cadre of individual benefactors who participate in one or more of the following membership programs: the Friends of Lincoln Center, the Chairman’s Council, the Great Performers Circle, the Young Patrons of Lincoln Center, LC Kids. In grateful acknowledgment of their generosity, Lincoln Center offers a variety of exclusive benefits to enrich each member's performing arts experience.

Planned Giving: The Bravo Society

An estate or other planned gift is an investment in the future of Lincoln Center. When you offer a planned gift to Lincoln Center, you become a member of the Bravo Society, which affords you special benefits including invitations to our annual Bravo Society Luncheon; invitations to tours, rehearsals and previews; exclusive access to the Mostly Mozart patrons lounge; and acknowledgment in Lincoln Center Playbill programs and our annual report.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Thanks to Our Supporters

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is deeply grateful to the many contributors whose generous gifts provide vital resources for its cultural, educational, and outreach programs and services.

Lincoln Center Council for U.S. Veterans

The generous contributions from members of the Lincoln Center Council for U.S. Veterans directly support the Lincoln Center Veterans Initiative, a program offering attendance opportunities, events and employment opportunities for U.S. Veterans and their families.

Business Advisory Council

The Lincoln Center Business Advisory Council (BAC) is a group of leading executives who are willing to devote one morning each year to advising Lincoln Center on its most pressing challenges and most promising opportunities.

Destination

In addition to being a major cultural destination for more 5 million visitors annually, Lincoln Center is also the setting for high-profile corporate and media events, and film premieres. Its transformed campus offers expanded public/green spaces, discount tickets, free WiFi, and varied dining options.

Destination

In addition to being a major cultural destination for more 5 million visitors annually, Lincoln Center is also the setting for high-profile corporate and media events, and film premieres. Its transformed campus offers expanded public/green spaces, discount tickets, free WiFi, and varied dining options.

Transforming Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, uniting 11 key arts organizations on one campus. Following five decades of artistic excellence and service, Lincoln Center completed an award-winning major transformation in October 2012 to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

Transforming Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, uniting 11 key arts organizations on one campus. Following five decades of artistic excellence and service, Lincoln Center completed an award-winning major transformation in October 2012 to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

Transforming Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, uniting 11 key arts organizations on one campus. Following five decades of artistic excellence and service, Lincoln Center completed an award-winning major transformation in October 2012 to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

Transforming Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, uniting 11 key arts organizations on one campus. Following five decades of artistic excellence and service, Lincoln Center completed an award-winning major transformation in October 2012 to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

Transforming Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, uniting 11 key arts organizations on one campus. Following five decades of artistic excellence and service, Lincoln Center completed an award-winning major transformation in October 2012 to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.

Venue Rentals Overview

Host your event at Lincoln Center for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Ignite creativity by hosting a meeting in one of our theaters. Excite your guests by hosting a reception in one of our lobbies. Let Lincoln Center’s magical ambience inspire your upcoming affair. You’re doing more than just planning an event, you’re giving your guests an everlasting memory.

Overview

Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) serves three primary roles: world’s leading presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Overview

Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) serves three primary roles: world’s leading presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Employment

Board of Directors

View a list of the Board of Directors.

Internships

Our Internship Program provides a unique learning opportunity for individuals interested in careers in performing arts administration and related fields. Interaction with fellow interns and professionals on staff allow for the creation of valuable contacts for the future.

Internships

Our Internship Program provides a unique learning opportunity for individuals interested in careers in performing arts administration and related fields. Interaction with fellow interns and professionals on staff allow for the creation of valuable contacts for the future.

Senior Team

View the list of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts senior management team.

Volunteer

Volunteer

Frequently Asked Questions

A list of commonly asked questions and answers.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

History

Lincoln Center was envisioned as a major performing arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life.

Financial Statements

Overview

Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) serves three primary roles: world’s leading presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

The third work commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Vera List Art Project, Lorna Simpson’s Double Portrait, will be released on October 23, it was announced today by Karen Davidson, Director of Visual Art. The silkscreen print on felt panel, which overall measures 34-1/2” X 40”, is a continuation of the artist’s recent collage series based on advertisements found in Ebony and Jet magazines from the 1930s through 1970s. Simpson regards these publications as important archives of American life. In the work, the portraits of two women taken from an Ebony advertisement are printed as a silkscreen on panels of felt, and make reference to the before and after shots found within many magazines of the time. In the ad, the women act out two versions of emotional state, much in the way that performers bring characters to life every night on Lincoln Center stages.

Double Portrait is the first work from Simpson’s current collage series to be printed on felt, a material which the artist has experimented with since the mid-1990s. Working with master printer Luther Davis of Axelle Editions, Simpson has created a silkscreen print which resembles a watercolor, collage and print, all on starched and pressed felt.

Double Portrait is available in a limited edition of 27 prints. Visit Art.LincolnCenter.org/ to view it and the complete collection and to purchase prints and posters. You may also view works by appointment, by emailing [email protected] or calling 212.875.5061.

One of the longest continuously publishing print programs in the United States, the Lincoln Center Vera List Art Project celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. It was established in 1962 by philanthropists Vera and Albert List as a way to both support the visual arts and raise funds for Lincoln Center. Since the inception of the program, Lincoln Center has commissioned more than 125 major artists of the time to create works available for sale to the public.

The two other works commissioned for the List Project’s 50th Anniversary are Donald Baechler’s Lincoln Center Globe, 2011, and Barbara Kruger’s Culture Vulture, 2012. Lincoln Center’s Vera List Art Project, continues the legacy of program founder Vera List, to bring the work of world-class visual artists to Lincoln Center.

Lorna Simpson

Double Portrait, 2013

Silkscreen on felt panel

Diptych

Left panel 22 color/screens; Right panel 20 color/screens

Edition of 27

Each: 34 ½” x 20”; Overall: 34 ½” x 40”

Printer: Luther Davis / Axelle Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY

About Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson first came to prominence mid-1980s for her large-scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory. With the African-American woman as a visual point of departure, Simpson uses the figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary multi-racial America. In the mid- 1990s, she began creating large multi-panel photographs printed on felt that depict the sites of public—yet unseen—encounters. More recently, she has turned to moving images—in film and video works such as Call Waiting—where Simpson presents individuals engaged in intimate and enigmatic yet elliptical conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to address the mysteries of both identity and desire. She recently began a project involving an archive of photographs from the 1950s, which she has been adding to by creating her own replicas of these images, posing herself to mimic the originals.

Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. When Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. Feeling a strong need to re-examine and re-define photographic practice for contemporary relevance, Simpson was producing work that engaged the conceptual vocabulary of the time by creating exquisitely crafted documents that are as clean and spare as the closed, cyclic systems of meaning they produce. Her initial body of work alone helped to incite a significant shift in the view of the photographic art’s transience and malleability.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Simpson has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany. She has been the subject of numerous articles, catalogue essays, and a monograph published by Phaidon Press. Simpson's first mid-career survey was exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, traveling to the Miami Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Gibbes Museum in South Carolina. She had solo exhibitions in New York, in 2008 and Paris in 2009. In 2010, she was the recipient of the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award in Art and in 2011, an exhibition of her conceptual photographic work, Gathered, was presented at the Brooklyn Museum.

In summer 2013, Simpson was artist in residence and had an exhibition at the Aspen Museum of Art. In spring, 2013, she had her first major European retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. That exhibition was co-organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis, and will travel to the Haus der Kunst, Munich, where it will be on display from October 25, 2013 to February 2, 2014.